Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter cast his vote in the upcoming election on Wednesday, October 16, just fifteen days after celebrating his 100th birthday.
This fulfills his earlier wish to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris.
According to the Carter Center, the nonprofit he founded after leaving the White House in 1981, Carter voted by mail.
Although Election Day is November 5, Carter took advantage of early voting in his home state of Georgia, where he is currently receiving hospice care.
Earlier this year, Carter had told his family that it was more important to him to live long enough to vote for Harris and help defeat her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, than to celebrate his centennial, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Carter has now achieved both milestones.
As of midday on October 15, more than 420,000 people had already cast their ballots in Georgia since early voting began, according to state election official Gabriel Sterling.
Carter, a former peanut farmer who rose to the presidency, has been receiving end-of-life care in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, since February of last year. He is the first U.S. president to reach 100 years of age.
